Honor and morality, love and guilt, emotional crises and inner abysses - these are the themes around which Schnitzler's great narratives revolve. While the couple Albertine and Fridolin in "Dream Story" live out their suppressed erotic desires in dream fantasies, the narrow-minded and uptight Lieutenant Gustl struggles with himself as he fears for his honor and social standing. In contrast, Miss Else, a young woman who is to surrender herself to another man to free her father from debt, is shattered by the consequences of a rigid double standard. Arthur Schnitzler is one of the most significant German-speaking writers. This volume brings together his three most famous and widely read stories: "Dream Story" (1926), "Miss Else" (1924), and "Lieutenant Gustl" (1900).